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The headline refers, of course, to a favorite scene from “Mr. Mom,” when Michael Keaton’s character, Jack, grabs a chainsaw (which is running) and dons safety glasses as his wife’s boss, Ron, shows up to pick her up for work. Jack turns the chainsaw off, then relays his plan to put on an addition, i…

Building on the tremendous momentum generated at MWC-Barcelona a few months ago, Cisco is the Diamond sponsor for the Big 5G Event May 6-8 in Denver, CO.  This is a great opportunity to learn about the Cisco 5G architecture, how it is being implemented today, and to learn about some new cloud-native…

Connected vehicles are considered to be one of the major drivers for investment in cellular communications technologies with forecasts projecting every new vehicle produced being ‘connected’ by 2025. What does this mean with respect to the impact on communications networks? What are the applications…

In the 20 years since the first laptops with built-in Wi-Fi were introduced, the idea of totally wireless but completely connected personal devices has become commonplace. Today, many laptops don’t even have wired networking ports. Most IoT devices use Wi-Fi to communicate. Every smartphone has a Wi…

In the previous blog, we looked at the Connected vehicle of tomorrow, at the services that are coming and their data volumes. In this final post, we’re going to take a look at the cost of data and how the financial model will affect manufacturer’s thinking. It will also consider what the impact of c…

The Open vRAN movement started with some smaller waves and the anticipation of a larger wave to form. It was driven by a belief that the fundamental way that mobile networks have been built for decades needed to evolve and improve. Legacy architectures, that were useful in the past, have outlived th…

In the previous blog, we looked at Connected vehicle services and telemetry, digging into the current data volumes. In this blog, we’re going to take a look at the Connected vehicle of tomorrow. How do the vehicle services change and what data volume might it represent? What will the data consist of…

2019 is going to be an incredible year in wireless networking. Enterprises are going to be able to take advantage of several important innovations. First, 5G carrier-based wireless is going to start rolling out broadly, bringing a promise of dramatically better performance to mobile workers and the…

In the previous blog, we looked at In-Vehicle Infotainment, focusing on streamed media and navigation services. In this blog, we’ll look at Connected vehicle services and telemetry. What is this and what data volume does it represent? Vehicle services Some vehicle manufacturers such as Jaguar, provi…